Fatah Hawks

The Fatah Hawks were a pro-Palestinian nationalism militant group that lasted from 1987 to 1995 and from 2004 to 2005. They were regarded as Yasser Arafat's "own" troops, and were responsible for various terrorist attacks.

History
The Fatah Hawks originated among Palestinian youths in Bethlehem, Nablus, Tulkarm, and Ramallah in the West Bank and Gaza City and Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip during the 1980s, and in 1987 they took part in the First Intifada. They used stones, knifes, and stolen firearms during the intifada, and they only used improvised weapons against the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) of Israel, who quelled the intifada soon after. In 1995, the Oslo Accords led to their disbanding.

However, they were re-formed in 2004 during the Second Intifada, and they killed 5 Israeli troops in a cross-border attack from Egypt into Gaza. Their member Yasser Abu Samahdaneh was responsible for killing 35 Arabs, many of them personal enemies or political rivals. In 2005, their last attack occurred when they blocked a road of Palestine National Authority troops in protest of the PNA's refusal to admit them into their security forces.